Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Walker Sands is an integrated B2B marketing agency that partners with technology and services companies to drive meaningful business results. The Senior Project Manager will manage a portfolio of accounts and cross-functional projects on a six-month contract, overseeing planning, execution, budgets, communication, and process improvement while supporting client outcomes and mentoring junior team members.
Responsibilities
- Develop timelines, collaboratively staff resources with service team leads and lead kickoff meetings
- Lead internal project kickoff meetings to ensure internal alignment to scope and client outcomes
- Anticipate risks during project planning and proactively propose ways to mitigate those risks
- Oversee project execution with cross-functional teams while ensuring alignment to scope, timeline, and budget
- Conduct QC/QA checks and alignment of deliverables to client outcomes and program scope
- Lead internal status meetings and provide clear project updates to the team
- Monitor budgets and team utilization to ensure profitability and resource availability
- Lead effort to resolve complex challenges related to scope, resource constraints, or timeline risks
- Act as a primary point of contact for internal team, providing guidance and removing internal roadblocks
- Promote seamless communication between internal team, account management, and client to ensure alignment on outcomes and deliverables
- Serve as a secondary point of contact for clients and participate in client meetings to speak to project status
- Activate action items to keep projects on track
- Provide feedback on project workflows and identify processes to improve
- Ensure all project assets are organized on Google Drive and accessible to project teams
- Contribute to department and agency process improvement
Skills
- Experience: 4+ years of project management experience in a marketing or agency environment with exposure to creative, strategy, and digital marketing projects types and deliverables
- Tools: Experience with Project Management tools like Trello, and familiarity with digital marketing platforms that support marketing automation and paid media like Hubspot, Pardot, Google Analytics, etc
- Knowledge: Strong understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies, and project reporting metrics like hours tracking, budget management, and timeline management
- Scope: Experience with managing up to 15 projects or clients at a time, with the ability to shift priorities based on client and internal feedback
Benefits
- Clear career paths, mentorship programs, and learning events to help you grow professionally.
- Flexible PTO and Hybrid Work: Take time as needed for vacations, mental health, or personal days. Includes 8 paid holidays, half-day summer Fridays, and a week off between Christmas and New Year.
- Regular performance reviews, clear goal-setting, and ongoing coaching to help you understand expectations, grow your skills, and make progress in your career.
- Employee resource groups, volunteer opportunities, and programs designed to build connection across the agency.
- An award-winning culture.
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